Making beer from home is a fun and rewarding experience. Not only do you get to drink your own beer, but you also get the satisfaction of knowing that you made it yourself. In this blog post, we will teach you the basics of how to make beer from home. We will go over the … Read more
As a brewer I have been asked many times: does beer go bad? As you can see by the length of this post the answer to this question is not a straight yes or no. The short of it is that yes beer does go bad. But that statement can be misleading because as you … Read more
In this day and age, most people know what a beer is. But the majority of people have no idea what the different types of beers are. If you ask the average beer drinker what is the difference between ale and lager, they are going to give you a blank stare or bumble through some … Read more
When it comes to making beer a brewer has three choices in regards to the malt they use, either malt extract, grains, or a combination of both. In this article, we will take a look at what malt extract is, how it is made, the two main types of malt extract as well as the … Read more
Pitching yeast is simply the terminology used by brewers for adding yeast to your wort or unfermented beer, mead, cider, wine, etc. In the case of beer, after you have brewed your wort and chilled it, you add the yeast to the fermenter before putting the lid on and placing it into your fermentation chamber … Read more